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The Democracy and Human Rights Party ( my, ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးပါတီ;
Established in 1989, among others by the lawyer and human rights activist Kyaw Hla Aung, the party was originally known as the National Democratic Party for Human Rights and contested eight seats in the 1990 general elections.Robert H Taylor (2009) ''The State in Myanmar'', NUS Press It received 1% of the vote, winning four seats. Its MPs included Nur Ahmed, Chit Lwin Ebrahim, Fazal Ahmed and Rohingya ‘excluded’ from Myanmar election contest
Mizzima, 4 November 2015
abbr.
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DHRP) is a political party in Myanmar
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representing the Rohingya
The Rohingya people () are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar (previously known as Burma). Before the Rohingya genocide in 2017, when over 740,000 fled to Bangladesh, an ...
of northern Rakhine State
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History
Established in 1989, among others by the lawyer and human rights activist Kyaw Hla Aung, the party was originally known as the National Democratic Party for Human Rights and contested eight seats in the 1990 general elections.Robert H Taylor (2009) ''The State in Myanmar'', NUS Press It received 1% of the vote, winning four seats. Its MPs included Nur Ahmed, Chit Lwin Ebrahim, Fazal Ahmed and Shamsul Anwarul Huq
Shamsul Anwarul Huq (born 1944), also known as Kyaw Min, is a Rohingya academic, pro-democracy activist and former politician in Myanmar. He has also been a political prisoner. Huq was a CEC member of the National Democratic Party for Human Righ ...
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After being banned by the military government, it continued to operate in exile, and the National Democratic Party for Human Rights (exile) was formed in New York City
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in 2003. The party registered as the Democracy and Human Rights Party to contest in the 2015 general election, but only three of its eighteen candidates were allowed to stand, none of whom were Rohingyas.Mizzima, 4 November 2015
References
{{Burmese political parties Political parties in Myanmar 1989 establishments in Myanmar Political parties established in 1989